NCG 1316 & 1317

NCG 1316 & 1317
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NCG 1316 & 1317

Centre of the NGC 1316 group in the Fornax Cluster
SPECIFICATIONS
Telescope ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
CH-1
Camera ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
QHY 600M Pro mono CMOS
Location ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
El Sauce, Chile
Date of observation ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
November 2023
Filters ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
LRGB
Processing ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Pixinsight 1.9.2
Credits ..........................................................................................................................................................................................................................
Jane Clark / Telescope Live
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There are also some cute incidental objects. At the very top left, there seems to be a globular cluster. Towards the top right is a small group of distant galaxies which seem to be quite redshifted.

The larger galaxy NGC 1316 is at the centre of a sub-cluster of the southern hemisphere’s Fornax Cluster. The galaxy above it is NGC 1317. The larger galaxy is listed as a lenticular galaxy, but some faint spiral structure is also visible, so that can’t be the whole story. There is considerable uncertainty about the distances to these galaxies: they’re around 55-80 million light years away.